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They Were There: Mark LittellMark Littell talks about his claim to infamy, serving up Chris Chambliss' pennant-winning home run in 1976—and his current venture selling cutting-edge protective cups for athletes.

Researching The Comebacker, Our Baseball Diary
Since 2008, we've provided a day-by-day account of everything related to Major League Baseball, and then some. Go back into recent times and relive (or learn, for the first time) baseball as it happened.

A Look Back on August, 2017The Month That Was in Baseball: The grown-ups play at Williamsport, and the kids love it; The Marlins finally sell—make sure the door hits you on the way out, Jeffrey Loria; Rhys Hoskins, the latest record-breaking young boomer; Sad goodbyes to Don Baylor and Darren Daulton. All this and more, including our Best and Worst of the Month, check it out!

The TGG Movie Review: “Bang the Drum Slowly”Borderline major league catcher Robert De Niro discovers he has only months to live—and star teammate Michael Moriarty does all he can to pull his friend through one final hurrah in this cinematically challenging but well-acted baseball tearjerker. But what do our Siskel & Ebert think? Find out now.

The Ballparks: Arlington StadiumSomewhere deep in the heat of Texas, within the hyphen that separates Dallas and Fort Worth, the Texas Rangers played ball at an overgrown minor league ballpark that featured a plethora of bleacher seats but little else—especially shade for the searing sun and sudden downpours. Located next to Six Flags, Arlington Stadium was never able to hoist that seventh flag, but served as the jerry-rigged precursor for better venues to come.

Ten Great Baseball Talents Who Left Us Way Too Soon
As in all professions, there sadly is a mortality rate within baseball—though it is awfully small given the health and young ages of the players. And that just makes it all the more shocking when news hits of a budding star whose life is suddenly and unexpectedly snuffed out. Here's ten players that could have been among the greatest ever seen in baseball. Because of their untimely deaths, we’ll never know.

2016 Cubs Win! Cubs Win!With stout pitching, a confident batch of young hitters and a magnetic manager, it finally all comes together for the Cubs, who shred baseball’s longest-ever championship drought at the expense of the Cleveland Indians—who now own baseball's longest current World Series dry spell.

The Ten Greatest Yankees HittersWith spry baseball skills, a smile to love and a sense of humor unique and clever as it comes, the late Yogi Berra won three MVP titles in five years for the mighty Yankees—but where does he stand among the list of pinstriped legends that spans Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Alex Rodriguez? Find out now!